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[ECM]

I don't think I even want to get into this for fear of destroying whatever shred of dignity I have left...

[kog3100edw]

Most of my super-ultra-bonus nerd-ery is actually outside video games. I mean I play a lot of games but I don't have collections, or clothing or any real merch that references them.

If you count stuff outside video games I'm pretty much embarassing. Don't get me started on kaiju stuff or super robots toys.

But this thread is in the Games forum... so I'm unsure that jazz is appropriate.

Edit add: Ooh ooh! I modded two joysticks! Does that count? I converted to standard HRAPs to all Seimitsu parts! Is that nerdy enough? Do I get any points?

[kog3100edw]

Excessive kaiju nerd-ery at my house starts with various garage kits in both finished and unfinished states.

Continues through the entire range of Trendmasters Godzilla toys (with sounds) that I bought and then held for my son before he was born.

Then after the Trendmasters toys were eventually broken, continues through a huge range of Bandai vinyls that, virtually unbreakable as they are, continue to be the cornerstone of my son's 'kid things', and he pulls them all out about once every two months to cover the entire living room in Monster Island.

Through every game, film or book available in English to almost every game and film available in Japanese with quite a few of their books to boot.

And probably culminates in two framed lobby posters for Godzilla films. One is a poster for the original 1954 Godzilla signed in person by Haruo Nakajima the guy that played Godzilla in the film. The other is for Godzilla vs Destoroyah, the last of the so-called Heisei Godzilla films as was signed in person by Ken Satsuma the guy that played Godzilla in THAT film. And at that time it was the 'last' Godzilla film. So basically, poster bookends of the first and last movies signed by Godzilla himself. As I said, framed, and under glass.

Yep. I've got it bad.